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San Jose Sharks vs Vegas Golden Knights

Regular season · Tuesday, December 23, 2025 · T-Mobile Arena

San Jose SharksSan JoseSharksAway

2–7

Final

SOG 23–26

Vegas Golden KnightsVegasGolden KnightsHome

NBCSCA · SCRIPPS

Game summary

The Vegas Golden Knights beat the San Jose Sharks 7-2 on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 at T-Mobile Arena. The Golden Knights outshot the Sharks 26-23.

Mitch Marner scored twice. Brett Howden, Colton Sissons, Tomas Hertl, Mark Stone, Macklin Celebrini, Reilly Smith and Collin Graf also scored.

Carter Hart made 21 saves on 23 shots for the win; Yaroslav Askarov stopped 12 of 16.

Goals1st2nd3rdTSOG
San Jose SharksSJS011223
Vegas Golden KnightsVGK511726

Three stars

  1. ★1st starMitch MarnerVGK · 2G 0A
  2. ★2nd starReilly SmithVGK · 1G 1A
  3. ★3rd starPavel DorofeyevVGK · 0G 2A

Scoring

1st period

2nd period

3rd period

Tired legs

Seconds into the shift for every skater on the ice at each goal. Taller bar, longer shift.

0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+
1:28

0–2 · 1st 9:07 · Marner. Ferraro was 1:28 into his shift when it went in.

GoalSJS on iceVGK on ice

0–1 VGK

1st 1:46 · Howden

Cardwell 0:26

0–2 VGK

1st 9:07 · PP · Marner

Long shift: Ferraro 1:28

0–3 VGK

1st 11:37 · Sissons

Mukhamadullin 0:52

0–4 VGK

1st 14:57 · Hertl

Orlov 0:23

0–5 VGK

1st 18:34 · Stone

Celebrini 0:29

1–5 SJS

2nd 6:49 · Celebrini

Long shift: Hertl 1:05

1–6 VGK

2nd 18:50 · Smith

Long shift: Orlov 1:12

1–7 VGK

3rd 5:22 · Marner

Dellandrea 0:36

2–7 SJS

3rd 8:04 · Graf

Hertl 0:57

Hover or tap a bar for the skater.

Across the league. Share of 5v5 unblocked shots that went in, by how far into his shift the defending team’s longest-serving skater was (2025–26).
3.9%
5.8%
6.5%
7.1%
7.3%
0–20s20–40s40–60s60–80s80s+

1.9×

Shots against a skater 80s+ into his shift go in 1.9 times as often as against fresh legs (7.3% vs 3.9%).

30%

of 5v5 goals came with a defender 60s+ into his shift.

Team stats

SJSVGK
23Shots on goal26
53%Faceoff %47%
0/1Power play1/4
8Penalty minutes4
25Hits13
6Blocked shots9
15Giveaways20
6Takeaways6

Penalties

  • 1st 07:58Shakir Mukhamadullin · slashing2 min
  • 1st 12:13Zach Whitecloud · interference2 min
  • 1st 12:23William Eklund · high sticking2 min
  • 2nd 08:02William Eklund · tripping2 min
  • 3rd 14:44Mario Ferraro · roughing2 min
  • 3rd 20:00Ben Hutton · slashing2 min

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